Humble beginnings. Heady fame. Personal demons. Private addictions. A slide to rock bottom that ends on a road to recovery. You know the story. You’ve seen it a hundred times. But not quite like this. With “Paul Williams Still Alive,” director Stephen Kessler...

Over 10 years, the scrappy, all-volunteer affair that is the Independent Film Festival of Boston has grown into a bona fide destination event. It’s got the guest filmmakers and long lines of ticketholders to prove it. With the energetic festival atmosphere comes a...

Now 10 years old, Boston’s volunteer-run festival of new independent film seems to be filling out nicely. A robust line-up of over 60 narrative and documentary features and 30-plus shorts will spread out across the Somerville, Brattle and Coolidge Corner Theatres from...

Who hasn’t spent untold hours debating the finer points and weaker albums of favorite bands? In honor of The Replacements, the pastime gets 120 minutes of cinematic glory in “Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements.” Novelist and filmmaker Gorman...

What makes a great fictional rock band? It takes more than pretty faces up front or a solid set of chops “behind the curtain”. For the whole package, a few unique and sparkling qualities are also in order, such as animal magnetism, superpowers, or combined bra-size...